Ancient Narrative

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Welcome to Ancient Narrative, the one academic journal worldwide dedicated specifically to the study of ancient narrative traditions. Here are five good reasons to publish in Ancient Narrative: 1) Open access, 2) No author fees, 3) Timely and rigorous review process, 4) High quality input from our Boards, 5) English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish contributions accepted. For more information see About > About the Journal.

Ancient Narrative has just published its first Special Issue

2026-01-22

We have just published our first Special Issue: Receptions of Ancient and Late Antique Narrative Travelling East, edited by Koen De Temmerman and Mara Nicosia.

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A new AN Supplement: Materiality and Ancient Narrative

2026-01-06

We have just published Petronian Society Newsletter 49 (2024)

2025-11-19

Current Issue

Articles

Borges, Petronio y la curiosa felicitas

Marcos Carmignani

1-20
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Yourcenar’s Hadrian: A Pendant

Keith Bradley

1-28
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La caverne dans l’île : un parcours dans les profondeurs des Éthiopiques d’Héliodore (1, 28, 2-2,18 ; 5, 4-6)

Patrick Robiano
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Reviews

Cameron Cross, Love at a Crux: The New Persian Romance in a Global Middle Ages

Ghazzal Dabiri

1-11
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Special Issue: Receptions of Ancient and Late Antique Narrative in the Eastern Mediterranean, edited by Koen De Temmerman and Mara Nicosia

Ancient and Late Antique Narrative Travelling East: Introduction

Mara Nicosia, Koen De Temmerman

1-4
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Between Christian Faith and Classical Learning: Symeon Seth’s Use of Quotes in Stephanites kai Ichnelates

Lilli Hölzlhammer

1-22
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Homer, Heliodorus and Pseudo-Callisthenes in Antony of Tagrit’s Rhetoric

Mara Nicosia

1-23
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A Feathered Thing Happened on the Way to the Agora: A Syriac Variant of the Riddle of the Sphinx

Simon Kootstra-Ford

1-22
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The Arabic Translation of the Tablet of Cebes: On the Value of Literature

Teddy Fassberg

1-26
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Jesus’ Bat and Echoing Narratives

Ali B. Langroudi

1-29
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